If you would like to meet LPC Commissioners or would like further information, please get in touch with the LPC Secretariat: lpc@lowpay.gov.uk ; Tel 020 7211 8119 to arrange a convenient time and location.
Details of the proposed dates and locations are as follows:
Sunderland – 19-20 April 2016 Hereford & Worcestershire – 11-12 May 2016 Northern Ireland (Derry) – 8-10 June 2016 Dundee and Angus – 5-7 July 2016
Low Pay Commission report on National Minimum Wage 18 March 2016
The Low Pay Commission (LPC) has published its 2016 Spring Report on the NMW . The core focus of the report is the recommendations on the rates affecting workers under 25 and apprentices to apply from 1 October 2016 which the government has accepted. The report includes the underlying evidence base, including extensive analysis of trends in growth, employment and pay. The report also provides analysis of the National Living Wage, which comes into force on 1 April 2016 for workers aged 25 and over, and sets out the preliminary views on how the LPC will approach making recommendations on its future path. The government has also confirmed that it will be aligning the cycle of the National Minimum Wage and the National Living Wage from April 2017. This means that the recommendations will last 6 months rather than the usual 12. As a consequence, the LPC will be making further recommendations in the Autumn on the level of all minimum wage rates (including the National Living Wage) from April 2017. To inform the next recommendations, the LPC will be consulting again in the Spring.
Structure, level and increases in the 2016 Spring Report on the NMW .
From October 2016-April 2017
Current level
From April 2016
Increase
National Living Wage (25+)
£7.20
£7.20
n/a
Adult rate (21+)
£6.70
£6.95
3.7%
Adult rate (21-24)
£6.70
Youth Development Rate (18-20) 16-17 Year Old Rate
£5.55
4.7%
£5.30
£4.00
3.4%
£3.87
£3.40
3%
Apprentice Rate
£3.30
A third of staff never check their payslips 31 March 2016
Workers are being urged to take simple steps to make sure they receive the government’s new National Living Wage from 1 April 2016.
The survey for the government’s Step Up for Britain campaign finds 32% of the lowest paid employees fail to make this simple check against their earnings.
On 1 April 2016 the new National Living Wage becomes law and the £7.20 rate will be introduced for workers aged 25 years and over.
Workers can take 3 simple steps to make sure they are eligible and receive the pay increase:
CIPP Policy News Journal
25/04/2016, Page 251 of 453
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